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ECOOP
2007
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Synchronizing Refactored UML Class Diagrams and OCL Constraints
UML class diagrams are usually annotated with OCL expressions that constrain their possible instantiation. In our work we have investigated how OCL annotations can be automatically...
Slavisa Markovic, Thomas Baar
UML
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Calculating with Concepts: a Technique for the Development of Business Process Support
: This paper introduces the Calculating with Concepts (CC) technique, which has been developed to improve the precision of UML class diagrams and allows the formal reasoning based ...
Remco M. Dijkman, Luís Ferreira Pires, Stef...
GI
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Testing Distributed Component Based Systems Using UML/OCL
We present a pragmatic approach using formal methods to increase the quality of distributed component based systems: Based on UML class diagrams annotated with OCL constraints, co...
Achim D. Brucker, Burkhart Wolff
COOPIS
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Towards Ontological Foundations for UML Conceptual Models
Abstract. UML class diagrams can be used as a language for expressing a conceptual model of a domain. We use the General Ontological Language (GOL) and its underlying upper level o...
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Heinrich Herre, Gerd Wagner
CAISE
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
No-redundant Metrics for UML Class Diagram Structural Complexity
In software engineering it is widely acknowledged that the usage of metrics at the initial phases of the object oriented software life cycle can help designers to make better decis...
M. Esperanza Manso, Marcela Genero, Mario Piattini
SOFTVIS
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
A New Approach for Visualizing UML Class Diagrams
UML diagrams have become increasingly important in the engineering and reengineering processes for software systems. Of particular interest are UML class diagrams whose purpose is...
Carsten Gutwenger, Michael Jünger, Karsten Kl...
SOFTVIS
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Nice Class Diagrams Admit Good Design?
Analysis and design of programs by using tools has emerged to a standard technique in object-oriented software engineering. Many of these tools claim to implement methods accordin...
Holger Eichelberger
COMPSAC
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
A Graph Grammar Approach to Software Architecture Verification and Transformation
Software architecture and design are usually modeled and represented by informal diagrams, such as architecture diagrams and UML diagrams. While these graphic notations are easy t...
Jun Kong, Kang Zhang, Jing Dong, Guang-Lei Song
EKAW
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
On the Foundations of UML as an Ontology Representation Language
There is a growing interest in the use of UML class diagrams as a modeling language to represent domain ontologies. In a series of papers (e.g., [1,2]) we have been using the Gener...
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Gerd Wagner, Heinrich Herre
VISSOFT
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Evaluating UML Class Diagram Layout based on Architectural Importance
The paper presents and assesses a layout scheme for UML class diagrams that takes into account the architectural importance of a class in terms of its stereotype (e.g., boundary, ...
Olena Andriyevska, Natalia Dragan, Bonita Simoes, ...